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All the ideas for 'works', 'What Metaphors Mean' and 'Categories'

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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / a. Category mistakes

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We can't do philosophy without knowledge of types and categories [Ryle]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / d. Metaphor

7775	Understanding a metaphor is a creative act, with no rules [Davidson]

7777	We accept a metaphor when we see the sentence is false [Davidson]

7776	Metaphors just mean what their words literally mean [Davidson]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

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Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche]